Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
February 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1989Complete the analogy: Silent is to loud as dim is to ___.
- 2nd February 1989True or False: in the extract, Amara opens the office door herself.
- 3rd February 1989Explain why a writer might choose to summarise ten years in one sentence but spend a whole paragraph describing a single afternoon.
- 4th February 1989"The team's performance was (1)_______ disappointing, given how well they had trained." Choose the best word: A) mildly B) bitterly C) somewhat
- 5th February 1989Explain why a writer might show a character's feelings through their actions, such as picking up a spade, rather than stating directly how they feel.
- 6th February 1989Choose the correct connective: 'Priya trained for the race every morning before school; ___, she finished in the top three.' A) however B) meanwhile C) consequently
- 7th February 1989Choose the correct word: "There has been a considerable (1)_______ of rainfall this month." A) amount B) number
- 8th February 1989True or False: Jack is moving when he hears the floorboard creak.
- 9th February 1989'Elliot dragged the trunk...' Suggest one reason the writer chose 'dragged' instead of 'carried' to describe this action.
- 10th February 1989Three of these words are synonyms; find the odd one out: cautious, careful, wary, careless.
- 11th February 1989Explain why finding 10% of an amount is a useful first step for finding many other percentages mentally.
- 12th February 1989Work out -5 - 4.
- 13th February 1989Find the smallest three-digit number divisible by 6.
- 14th February 1989A patio is L-shaped, made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 1 m rectangle removed from a corner. Find its area.
- 15th February 1989A cuboid measures 4 cm by 3 cm by 5 cm. Find its volume.
- 16th February 1989A walker covers 9 km in 2 hours 15 minutes. Work out her average speed in km/h.
- 17th February 1989A two-way table shows 40 pupils. 22 are in Year 5 and the rest are in Year 6. How many are in Year 6?
- 18th February 1989A function machine has the rule 'subtract 7, then divide by 3'. If the output is 4, find the input.
- 19th February 1989Share 45 pounds in the ratio 2:3.
- 20th February 1989x = 5 and y = 2. Work out the value of 3x - y.
- 21st February 1989A pictogram key shows one symbol = 5 pupils. A bar for Year 5 shows 6 full symbols. How many Year 5 pupils are represented?
- 22nd February 1989Three consecutive whole numbers add up to 72. Form an equation using n for the smallest number, and solve it to find the three numbers.
- 23rd February 1989A ribbon 84cm long is cut in the ratio 4:3. Find the length of the shorter piece.
- 24th February 1989A rope 18m long is cut into 3 equal pieces, then one of those pieces is cut in half. How long is one of the smallest pieces?
- 25th February 1989Find 3/8 of 64.
- 26th February 1989A shop has 53 apples and 38 oranges. How many more apples than oranges does it have?
- 27th February 1989Find the mode of this data set: 2, 5, 5, 3, 5, 8, 2.
- 28th February 1989Convert 7/10 to a percentage.